2016 Election by Precinct

Below is the MA map: this would be so much better with town lines as context! And: as an interactive map. Maps of the other states and the USA as a whole are at 2016 Presidential General Election Maps.

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Mapping Patterns Across Space

UX Patterns for Maps presents a series of examples on how to map spatial patters using maps - very useful and instructive!

The World Mapped As Domains

More here. And here if you are wondering about the .tk domains.

GDP Cartogram

Below is great cartogram - showing each county sized as a function of its GDP. Even better: the folks @ Metrocosm tell us How to Make Cartograms With Animation.

Or, use the new Cartogram Tool by Esri.

Housing Values Cartograms

I'm a big fan of cartograms and The Housing Value of Every County in the U.S. has several great ones:

The website has an interactive version!

Or, as an animated GIF:

Now That's A Map!

Well-written: Equal Area Cartograms and Multivariate Labels with several great examples, including this one:

SHOW by Mapping Worlds

SHOW by Mapping Worlds makes interactive cartograms of countries, US states, or Japan prefectures and you can get the data as MS Excel spreadsheets - nice!

The Carbon Map

Simple and clean: The Carbon Map is a series of cartograms telling the story of global climate change

Interactive Cartograms

How We Share The World is a series of 'dynamic' cartograms - this would be great to add to Worldmapper.

Flooding

Here is an excellent interactive map / cartogram of flooding due to sea level rise produced by the NYT. It's simple, it's elegant, and does not overwhelm with the amount of interactivity or visual fireworks: Flooding Risk From Climate Change, Country by Country

Gapminder and Worldmapper

These are not 'new', but pretty close to being the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion.

Gapminder makes interactive 'maps' from data - maps that are in Cartesian coordinates (as opposed to geographic coordinates). The online version of Gapminder World is amazing, but you can also download the data and the offline version of Gapminder World. Nature (15 December 2016) has a nice article about Hans Rosling, the man behing Gapminder.



Worldmapper is a similar approach, but here the data are visualized as cartograms. Recently they extended that approach to visualize 'gridded' population cartograms for individual countries. Best of all: all data are available as MS Excel files - awesome.

World Population Map

Worldmapper

This is one of the best teaching tools I have seen: Worldmapper

Cartograms of the world with the underlying data as MS Excel spreadsheets - great!